"Where there is a will there is a way." This is how one can describe the struggling story of an IAS officer Krishna Gopal Tiwari, 29.Up to his school life perhaps was he knowing that he would lose his vision in his youthful days although it sadly happened. He all of a sudden, in a short course of time lost his 75 per cent eyesight due to Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare and incurable ailment at the age of just 20.
He was in college then, but that could not deter his spirit to move ahead with his life according to plan, and finally Krishna turned out to be India’s first IAS officer with 75 per cent visual deformity in 2008. He also happens to be the first person under the visually and physically challenged category, to make it under 250 i.e. 142nd rank in India’s premier civil servicesexams. Interestingly, he accomplished it without any formal coaching at the age of 26.
Krishna at present is a Madhya Pradesh-cadre IAS officer. Son of a minor farmer, Swami Nath Tiwariof nondescript Dasvanpur village in Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, he defeated all adversities apart from battling his very personal deformity. He had to answer his papers with the help of two scribes provided by the Union Public Service Commission, as it is an arrangement in the case of visually challenged candidate.
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